Day: June 30, 2017

“Lynching or killing any human being is condemnable, barbaric and civilized society cannot accept it. It is for the law enforcement agencies of the respective states to take the strongest possible action,” Naidu told reporters. “Let us not give it a religious colour. Let us not divide the society,” he said.

Congress’s boycott of the midnight Parliament session cannot be seen as divorced from its peeve over BJP’s opposition that denied UPA authorship of the GST. The decision to stay away also appears linked to the party’s belief that cooperating with PM Modi only brought it some condescension.

The NIA probe into the barter trade between India and Pakistan at LoC is almost finalized with the agency arriving at a decision to write to the government recommending closure of the trade which agency sources say is largely being misused to fund terror activities and fuel civil unrest in J&K.

Can mice or fire destroying files be an adequate excuse not to give information under the RTI Act? That’s a question that the central information commission has asked officials in response to a complaint filed by an RTI applicant who claimed that he had been denied information by the department concerned on the basis that the files were “missing”.

The goods and services tax, a radical step towards the country’s transformation into a common market, became a reality at the stroke of midnight with Prime Minister Narendra Modi billing it a “good and simple tax” which would help businessmen by putting an end to tax terrorism and inspector raj.

“Inflation will come down, tax avoidance will be difficult, India’s GDP will be benefited and extra resources will be used for welfare of poor and weaker section,” Jaitley said. He further said that 17 transaction taxes in states and centre and 23 cesses would be subsumed in GST